Meditation: Exploring Consciousness in Everyday Living
Are you trying to cope with stress, chronic illness or pain? Learn how
habitual behavior, thoughts, and feelings affect your overall well-being;
and how you can make healthy choices. The practice of meditation can bring
you lasting changes in physical and psychological symptoms, greater energy,
improved self-esteem and increased ability to cope with pain and stress.
When we begin to separate ourselves from our thoughts, we allow the "doing"
to come from a place of "being". The practice of staying present, involves
perceiving our thoughts differently. Part of the focus is to recognize
different ways of perceiving stress/anxiety and learning different skills to
address that kind of suffering. We will learn how to incorporate a daily
meditation practice into our busy lives. Meditation cultivates our natural
capacity for clear decision-making. It offers the possibility to live like
Buddha suggests: "May we live like the lotus blossom, at home in the muddy
waters." All beginners and established practitioners who need a boost are
welcome.